Everything looks investable.
Until someone checks.
We're the ones who check.
Before you wire the money. Before the board signs off. Before you find out the hard way, eighteen months in, that the thing you bought is not the thing you were shown. Funders, investors, corporates, owners — if you're about to bet on a business, we tell you what's actually true about it. Then, if something's missing, we send someone to go and fix it.
Your commitment keeps climbing.
Your evidence does not.
Here's what actually happens on every deal.
Money goes in. Headcount goes in. Reputations get attached to the outcome. That line climbs from day one and never stops.
The evidence line? It flatlines the moment the business case gets signed off. Nobody goes back to check. Checking is slow. Checking is unglamorous. And every so often, checking finds the answer nobody in the room wanted to hear — which is exactly why nobody volunteers to do it.
That gap between the two lines is the risk you haven't priced yet. We measure it while it's still cheap to close, not after you've signed.
Nobody has ever been promoted for finding out they were wrong.
The reason organisations cannot mark their own homework is not dishonesty. It is incentives. The person who runs the numbers again and finds the problem becomes, in that moment, the obstacle. The person who keeps the deal moving is the one everybody thanks.
So the checking either gets done by someone with no career riding on the answer, or it does not get done at all. That is the entire service, and it is why the useful version of it has to come from outside the building.
It is also why we are direct about what we find. A soft finding is not a kindness. It is an invoice you pay later.
Verify it. Ready it. Staff it.
We bring independent judgement, commercial evidence and experienced operators to the decisions that sit between ambition and proof. Three lines, one standard. Most work starts at one of them and moves to the others, because the finding and the fix are rarely bought by the same person on the same day.
Independent commercial, technical and operational diligence for funders, investors, corporates and business owners, plus the transaction support to get the deal done. Written to be acted on rather than filed.
Explore Due Diligence →For founder-led businesses turning over US$2m to US$20m. We diligence you before a buyer does, move the judgement out of your head into a system the team can run, and take the business to a standard that prices well.
Explore Investable Ready →How a finding becomes a fix. Experienced operators placed into the gap the diligence or the readiness work exposed, with a defined mandate and an end date.
Explore Fractional Teams →Find out what your evidence is actually worth.
Twelve questions, about eight minutes. You get a score across five weighted dimensions, a level on the Investable Standard, and the specific gap holding it back. No call required to see the result.
Judgement built on real transactions.
Corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate-wide innovation and IT transformation programmes, venture building and founder development.
Strategic transactions led or advised on across a twenty eight year career spanning technology transformation and mergers and acquisitions, rather than by the firm.
Across African markets, including cross-border and multi-jurisdiction transactions.
We are a good fit when...
If more than two of these are true, the conversation is usually worth having. If none of them are, we will tell you that rather than sell you something.
Capital, a deal or a mandate is about to be committed, and the case underneath it has not been independently tested.
The company works, and everybody quietly knows it would not work for long without the founder in the middle of it.
Somebody already did the analysis. Nothing changed, because no finding had an owner or a date attached to it.
You need someone to challenge the numbers who has no career riding on the answer, which nobody inside the building does.